2005

where shall I hide you?
to find you later
when you've been
cleared through customs
deemed safe
to serve a new life
an evocative memory

I think I will toast you
drink you down
with a shot of glenfiddich
allow you to ferment
in my chyme
where you can stew
see the error of your ways
and repent
all the pain you've caused me
all the joy you've shown me

for no span of 365 days
has ever changed me so
hung me to dry
kissed me awake
skewered my soul
and left me to bleed
tainting that oh so clean tabula rasa

there has been no year like you
and yet I cannot dawdle
I must cover your eyes
and embrace 2006

I hope he is as good a lover as you.